Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Jeff Mason The European Union’s executive amended its controversial proposals for nuclear safety and waste management legislation on Wednesday, but a leading environmental group slammed the package as misleading and helpful to industry.
Western oil companies are running out of likely places to look, and significant finds are growing rarer. With the most accessible areas either already picked clean or kept off limits for political reasons, exploration teams are having to push into harsher, more remote and less promising territory, where the costs and risks are high.
Bill Henderson considers the relationship between global trends of resource depletion, environmental damage, terrorism and the use of war.
Annell Bay, Royal Dutch-Shell’s exploration director for the Americas, won’t speculate about the issue of global oil peak, but expresses his desire to see ‘anywhere currently off-limits’ opened up for exploration.
Even though oil prices have risen 30 percent in the last year, the United States’ gusto for gasoline has not been shaken.
The world’s oil giants may shy away from open book-keeping, but when national governments take the lead they have little choice but to fall into line.
Some say the estimates of the new reserves may be too optimistic. But even if the oil is there, Mexico may have hard time getting at it.
The UK will fail to meet key objectives on reducing air pollution, resulting in further damage to human health, a leading expert has said.
Leaked documents reveal that the Australian government’s recent Energy White Paper was heavily influenced by the country’s biggest polluters.
A bevy of scholars and policy analysts have seized this important moment of high prices and oil-related war to write about petroleum. Three new titles focus on the evocative political implications of our national chemical dependence.
Oil prices eased yesterday as top world exporter Saudi Arabia slashed prices for its crude sales to the United States and Europe, however their excess production is heavier grade oil and not to refiners’ liking.
For 50 years, nuclear power has been a solution in search of a problem. Now – oh, happy days! – two of them have arrived at once. Suddenly, climate change exists: George Bush says so. After years of ridicule, the greens’ jeremiads about declining oil production are now spilling from other people’s mouths.
